Depression What could be more pleasant than to sit in a restaurant with a glass of wine and have a nice meal, Not to feel guilty about the fact you skived off work, That you have lost your pay on playing the slots, the bingo, the horses, drink, drugs, whatever, Depression is an all-consuming deep…
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Open Call – Street Line Critics & The Prequel Programme Collaboration
Street Line Critics & The Prequel Programme Collaboration Submission Deadline: 25th April 2014, 12am. Street Line Critics and The Prequel Programme are delighted to announce an open call for an upcoming collaboration happening in May this year. We would like to invite you to send in written/text based submissions relating to Ormston House (9-10-11 Patrick…
We are in the Limerick Guide
Hello Everyone, we kept forgetting to post this up but just for everyone taking part, we got a mention in the Limerick Guide, that has been circulating. Lets hope for a dry spring so we can soon get back to chalking.
Up and Coming Collaboration with the Prequel Project at Ormston House
Hello Everyone, The first meeting has taken place confirming a collaboration between Street Line Critics and Ormston House’s Prequel Project. http://www.prequel-ormstonhouse.com/events.html No dates have been set just yet but we will be starting up an open call in the coming weeks. We are looking for contributions about Ormston House, creating a collage of its histories,…
Joe Healy on Howley’s Quay
Gathered in Darkness, Rescued in Light We gathered in darkness four in the morning unbelievable, the crowd that showed by our side. For the House they call Pieta who councel the lonely hoping to free us from the stigma of – suicide. Like the Vikings we crept over the Island. Sarsfield and Thomond now in…
Rita Ryan outside the Munster Fair Tavern (Mulgrave Street)
The Munster Fair Tavern The Munster Fair Tavern so aptly placed looks directly across at the Human Race The ones that have passed away, And will never again see the dawn of the day. The famous Sean Bourke sat there glass in hand As the funeral of his uncle Feathery passed, Totally devoid…
Teri Murray in The People’s Park
Excerpt from ‘Returning to Ithaca’ ‘Spoken, softly in The People’s Park Where archipelagos of green divided By paths like streams The member for Parliament Spring-Rice on his plinth Pebbles where his eyes used to be’ – Teri Murray Photographs by Natalie Woociker:
Map of Contributions (so far)
Each red dot signifies a place where one contribution has been written. We are slowly covering the city…
Jennifer M. on Mulgrave Street (outside St. Joseph’s Hospital)
I try to see you with my eyes closed Every day I was doing my best, Moving you out of my brain. Dreaming about all the things we had, Illusions, for me it was the same. I know you had no body. But for me you were so good. Deep inside me. You gave…
Evelyn Casey on Georges Quay (Outside Barrington’s Hospital)
Three AM on The Bridge (For Eva) Was that you I saw in the shadow of the lamplight? In the small hours of the morning leaning, on the river wall watching your image, you could not be far away from the flowing of the water, where life is cleansed from the hospital, where life…